Darwin With Glass Painting Instructions

by Larry Stout
(Ozarkistan)

Trying to imagine how to make Pebeo paint for glass work for portraiture, I recalled the scratchboard technique. So, to make my "Darwin" I downloaded a photographic portrait of the gent, printed out at desired scale, cut out the man himself, placed on whitish opalescent glass rectangle, and heavily overpainted in black all around (more lightly brushed for his coat), then daubed inside the outline, variously dark or left blank, as the photo suggested. After overnight drying, Darwin's features were "picked out" (scratched out, actually) with X-acto knife point. I used the resulting effigy in a capricious panel, where Darwin is surrounded by a variety of fanciful, Pebeo-marker-drawn beetles, at which he looks, quite evidently, askance! ;>)

Milly's reply:
Thanks Larry, you've got a sense of humour to go with your artistic talent! This is a really good idea for cold stained glass paint (paint you don't have to fire in a kiln). It's very similar to the sgraffito technique used to paint the lovely sleeping squirrel at the bottom of my Glass Painting Techniques page.